diatribe

Example Sentences

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Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Altman was about to launch into a diatribe about the commercials that Anthropic, the maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude, rolled out for the Super Bowl.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026

Nacua's diatribe, made on an internet livestream, earned him a $25,000 fine.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Staying close to her family in the Mediterranean city of Tartus during the Covid-19 pandemic, she sent him a voice message, playing back a piece of his diatribe that had been secretly recorded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Her mother told her not to worry and launched into a diatribe about the medical technologies of the seventies until Alma interrupted her.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore